Mitigating soil erosion, especially in Mediterranean countries such as Greece, is essential in order to maintain environmental and agricultural sustainability. In this paper, scientific publications related to soil erosion studies in Greece were reviewed and categorized. To accomplish this, the online search engine of Scopus was used. The key words were "soil", "erosion" and "Greece." An analysis of the published articles was conducted at three levels: i) type of publication, ii) chronologic and iii) thematic. A hundred and ten publications published in scientific journals were reviewed. The results showed that the awareness regarding the soil erosion in Greece has increased only in the last decades. The publications covered a wide range of thematic categories such as the type of studied areas, the physical phenomena that trigger and influence the soil erosion, the negative anthropogenic impacts on them, the assessment tools that were used in order to examine the threat and the proper management. The analysis of these articles was significant and necessary in order to find the scientific gaps of soil erosion studies in Greece and help enhance the sustainability of soil management in the future., {"references":["Acheson, P.E. (1997) Does the 'economic explanation' work?\nSettlement, agriculture and erosion in the territory of Halieis in the Late\nClassical-Early Hellenistic period. Journal of Mediterranean\nArchaeology, 10 (2), pp. 165-190.","Allen, H.D., Randall, R.E., Amable, G.S., Devereux, B.J. (2006) The\nimpact of changing olive cultivation practices on the ground flora of\nolive groves in the Messara and Psiloritis regions, Crete, Greece. 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